Charcot’s hysteria
🧵: Charcot’s hysteria and the epidemic of ROGD
In the late 1800s, a brilliant neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, triggered an epidemic of hysteria in women of the French upper-middle class. It is one of the best examples of the medical world’s ability to shape mental illness./1
— Mia💚🤍💜 (@_CryMiaRiver) April 8, 2022
